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Venetian rabbi and autobiographer

Leone Modena

Life

1571–1648

His autobiography documents intellectual and social relations between Jews and Christians.

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Leone Modena's autobiography reveals close cultural proximity between Jews and Christians. In 1622 Christians and nobles heard Modena preach in a packed synagogue.